7. After restarting the service, your hosts will disconnect from vCenter. Login to the vSphere
client and right click on the hosts and select “Connect”. The connect will fail with a digital
certificate verification error but you will get prompted to enter the root password. Go ahead and
accept the new certificate. Accept the defaults on all other screens and reconnect your hosts.

1. If your host has not automatically disconnected, disconnect it now.
2. Right click on your host and select Connect. Click Yes when prompted to reconnect.
3. Click Close when you get the error about the SSL certificate verification failure.
4. When prompted, enter the root user and password for your ESXi host.
5. Accept the new certificate.
6. Accept all the defaults on the remaining steps and click Finish.